Structured Fluids : Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants PDF
by Thomas A. Witten
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Over the last thirty years, the study of liquids containing polymers, surfactants, or colloidal particles has developed from a loose assembly of facts into a coherent discipline with substantial predictive power.
These liquids expand our conception of what condensed matter can do.
Such structured-fluid phenomena dominate the physical environment within living cells.
This book teaches how to think of these fluids from a unified point of view, showing the far-reachingeffects of thermal fluctuations in producing forces and motions.
Keeping mathematics to a minimum, the book seeks the simplest explanations that account for the distinctive scaling properties of these fluids.
An example is the growth of viscosity of a polymer solution as the cube of the molecularweight of the constituent polymers.
Another is the hydrodynamic radius of a colloidal aggregate, which remains comparable to its geometrical radius even though the density of particles in the aggregate becomes arbitrarily small.
The book aims for a simplicity, unity and depth not found in previous treatments.
The text is supplemented by numerous figures, tables and problems to aid the student.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:07/01/2010
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:07/01/2010
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- ISBN:9780191576928
